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- Online caste-hate speech: Pervasive discrimination and humiliation on social media — by Damni Kain, Shivangi Narayan, Torsha Sarkar and Gurshabad Grover — last modified Dec 15, 2021 10:55 AM
- A research report on the contours of online caste-hate speech and how social media platforms moderate such expression.
- Gram Panchayat Development Plan (GPDP): An Opportunity for Funding Rural Internet Connectivity in India — by Abhishek Raj — last modified Dec 14, 2021 02:12 AM
- A paper titled "Gram Panchayat Development Plan (GPDP): An Opportunity for Funding Rural Internet Connectivity in India" authored by CIS' researcher Abhishek Raj got published in the book "Community Networks: Towards Sustainable Funding Models". This book was released at the United Nations Internet Governance Forum(IGF) 2021, and is also the official outcome of the IGF Dynamic Coalition on Community Connectivity (DC3).
- Covid-19 and Platform Work: Reflections on Institutional Policy Responses — by Centre for Internet and Society, and IT for Change — last modified Dec 10, 2021 11:53 AM
- A Civil Society Agenda for E-Shram — by Centre for Internet & Society, and IT for Change — last modified Dec 10, 2021 12:16 PM
- Launching CIS’s Flagship Report on Private Crypto-Assets — by Aman Nair — last modified Dec 13, 2021 09:11 AM
- The Centre for Internet & Society is launching its flagship report on regulating private crypto-assets in India, as part of its newly formed Financial Technology (or Fintech) research agenda. The event will be held on Zoom, at 17:30 IST on Wednesday, 15th December, 2021
- Gender and gig work: Perspectives from domestic work in India — by Ambika Tandon — last modified Dec 07, 2021 02:11 AM
- Platforms have the potential to be instrumental in protecting workers rights, but the current platform design is not optimised to protect workers’ interests especially those of women in the gig economy, argues Ambika Tandon, a senior researcher at the Centre for Internet and Society in India and an author of the report on ‘Platforms, Power and Politics: Perspectives from Domestic and Care Work in India’.
- AI in the Future of Work — by Ambika Tandon — last modified Dec 07, 2021 01:51 AM
- Artificial Intelligence and allied technologies form part of what is being called the fourth Industrial Revolution.
- Practicing Feminist Principles — by Ambika Tandon — last modified Dec 07, 2021 12:54 AM
- AI can serve to challenge social inequality and dismantle structures of power.
- Are India’s much-lauded startups failing their women workers? — by Abhishek Sekharan and Ambika Tandon — last modified Dec 06, 2021 04:24 PM
- Recent protests outside Urban Company’s head office highlight the gendered nature of work in the country’s digital economy.
- Between Platform and Pandemic: Migrants in India's Gig Economy — by Kaarika Das and Srravya C — last modified Dec 06, 2021 04:04 PM
- In response to the rising number of COVID-19 cases in India, the central government announced a nationwide lockdown in March 2020.
- Panel discussion on 'How to Avoid Digital ID Systems That Put People at Risk: Lessons from Afghanistan' at Freedom Online Conference — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 03, 2021 02:52 PM
- Amber Sinha participated as a panelist in a panel discussion on How to Avoid Digital ID Systems That Put People at Risk: Lessons from Afghanistan at the Freedom Online Conference yesterday.
- Who Funds Us — by Pranav M B — last modified Nov 02, 2021 09:43 AM
- CIS is able to conduct its research only through the support of both long term, and short term donors, who are also acknowledged throughout our website on the publications they support. Below is a list of past donors across the years who have supported us.
- International Cyber Law Toolkit scenario: Internet blockage — by Arindrajit Basu and Gurshabad Grover — last modified Sep 26, 2021 03:06 PM
- Arindrajit Basu and Gurshabad Grover’s scenario and international law analysis Internet Blockage was published as part of the NATO Co-operative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence’s Cyber Law Toolkit as part of its September 2021 annual update.
- #CultureForAll Conference on Cultural Mapping — by Sneha PP — last modified Sep 20, 2021 03:18 PM
- Sahapedia is organising the #CultureForAll Conference on Cultural Mapping, digitally on September 28 and 29, 2021. The conference will take place in collaboration with the Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra, Azim Premji University, the Centre for Internet and Society, and the Re-Centring Afro Asia project at the University of Cape Town.
- Facial Recognition Technology in India — by Elonnai Hickok, Pallavi Bedi, Aman Nair and Amber Sinha — last modified Sep 02, 2021 04:21 PM
- The Human Rights, Big Data and Technology Project, University of Essex, UK and the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) have jointly published a research paper on facial recognition technology. Authors, Elonnai Hickok, Pallavi Bedi, Aman Nair and Amber Sinha, examine technological tools such as CCTV and FRT which are increasingly being deployed by the government.
- Fundamental Right to Privacy — Four Years of the Puttaswamy Judgment — by Pranav M B — last modified Aug 24, 2021 04:55 AM
- Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021/Report — by Nitesh Gill and Tito Dutta — last modified Aug 20, 2021 02:01 PM
- In March 2020, the whole world came to a standstill. What many deemed as a regular ‘flu’ turned out to be the pandemic that brought everyone to their knees. The things that we always did, we could no longer do them. We were all confined to our homes with no choice but to work online. Hanging out with friends, attending weddings, and being a part of the conferences and seminars suddenly became a part of the past. We started using the word unprecedented a lot.
- Techno-solutionist Responses to COVID-19 — by Amber Sinha, Pallavi Bedi and Aman Nair — last modified Aug 10, 2021 03:34 PM
- The Indian state has increasingly adopted a digital approach to service delivery over the past decade, with vaccination being the latest area to be subsumed by this strategy. In the context of the need for universal vaccination, the limitations of the government’s vaccination platform Co-WIN need to be analysed.
- Do We Really Need an App for That? Examining the Utility and Privacy Implications of India’s Digital Vaccine Certificates — by Divyank Katira — last modified Aug 03, 2021 05:13 AM
- We examine the purported benefits of digital vaccine certificates over regular paper-based ones and analyse the privacy implications of their use.
- Finding Needles in Haystacks - Discussing the Role of Automated Filtering in the New Indian Intermediary Liability Rules — by Shweta Mohandas and Torsha Sarkar — last modified Aug 03, 2021 07:28 AM
- On the 25th of February this year The Government of India notified the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021. The new Rules broaden the scope of which entities can be considered as intermediaries to now include curated-content platforms (Netflix) as well as digital news publications. This blogpost analyzes the rule on automated filtering, in the context of the growing use of automated content moderation.
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